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Projects & Money
Launches, upgrades, funding, DeFi.
- OKXICE sets 23 November launch for tokenised securities venue under SEC innovation exemption.
- Deutsche Bank's digital asset custody service goes live after five years of build.
- Kraken's xStocks platform crosses $1.1 billion in assets after adding 200 UK and EU shares.
- Nomura's Laser Digital structures a $100 million tokenised Saudi SME credit vault on BNB Chain.
- Goldman Sachs, Citi and a group of global banks commit $270 million to a new stablecoin issuer.
- Alta raises $47.5 million Series A to build a privacy-and-compliance blockchain for financial institutions.
- Plume's affiliate secures a broker-dealer licence to trade regulated security entitlements onchain.
- Moody's and Chainlink run a testnet pilot distributing credit ratings across permissioned and public chains.
- Coinbase receives full OCC approval for a national trust bank charter.
- Coinbase and PNC Bank pilot USDC payments for corporate clients.
- Securitize acquires River One to push into asset-backed lending.
- Solana moves to remove the durable-nonce feature exploited in the $270 million Drift hack.
- tBTC bridge resumes partially while $120M in Aave reserves stays locked.
- Vitalik reframes ETH as a store of value, not a fee-burning machine.
- Two rival EIPs seek to shield legacy Ethereum contracts from Glamsterdam breakage.
- Stablecoin supply growth has plateaued even as payment volumes climb.
- Binance CFO Kaiser Ng departs nine days after the $6B hack.
- Binance shutting accounts in select European markets by year-end.
- Holograph insider gets five years for $14M illicit token mint.
- Grayscale positions Ethereum as the dominant RWA and stablecoin layer.
- Aave Labs acquires Avon team to build out fixed-rate lending.
- Apple and Meta reject OKX-ICE tokenised stock plan.
- Zcash NU7 upgrade goes live, tripling block speed and burning 60% of fees.
- Hyperliquid Strategies applies to become a US futures commission merchant.
- Hyperliquid Strategies files for CFTC FCM status.
- Anchorage Digital applies for CFTC swap dealer registration.
- Samsung Wallet ships USDC accounts on Solana for US users.
- Standard Chartered and SBI back crypto insurer Soter at $23.5 million.
- Morgan Stanley tokenises US equities and Treasuries through DTCC's new service
- Schroders brings an actively managed emerging-market debt fund to Solana
- Circle posts $865M in Q3 revenue but quietly cuts 5% of its headcount
- Blockaid raises $40M after the Binance breach puts security spend in focus
- Moscow Exchange will list Bitcoin and USDT in December despite active US sanctions.
- NEAR cuts its maximum annual token issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months.
- Aztec rolls out Tierra V6, fixing a critical prior-version bug and doubling proof speed.
- Justin Sun moves to sanction World Liberty Financial, alleging concealed UAE citizenship.
- Fifty companies now formally object to OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue.
- Strategy adds 811 BTC for $65.5 million as treasury buyers keep bidding into weakness.
- Standard Chartered and the HKMA push Hong Kong to the frontier of tokenised finance.
- XRP Ledger patches a flaw that could have enabled unauthorised stablecoin minting.
- Crypto card startups burning cash to subsidise rewards programmes.
- Animoca Brands convenes a tokenised RWA panel at Hong Kong Fintech Week.
- Uber is piloting tokenised treasury management with HSBC and Franklin Templeton.
- AI token usage up 122% to 160% even as token prices fell 67%, per a16z data.
- Ethereum dominates stablecoin settlement with 54% share as tokenised equities jump 170%.
- Traders are using crypto-native contracts to take leveraged positions on Anthropic's anticipated IPO.
- Hacker dumps an obscure 2017-era token, which crashes 90% within hours.
- India's CoinDCX halts new crypto futures positions as Binance incident disrupts liquidity.
- XRP Ledger tightens access controls for restricted token holders.
- OpenAI trims its fundraising target by $10 billion as investor appetite for AI cools.
- ICE and Trade[XYZ] partner to launch regulated Hyperliquid perpetual futures in the US.
- Polygon integrates Solana into its stablecoin payments stack.
- OKX-ICE tokenised stock venue faces mounting corporate objections.
- Switzerland issues its first genuine spot bitcoin ETF with overseas broker access.
- RLUSD earns Moody's A2 rating and lands on Coinbase in the same week.
- DTCC and major banks test bringing $30 trillion in securities onto blockchain rails.
- Securitize fires back at anti-tokenisation WSJ ad with a full-page counter.
- Pendle's TVL rises for the first time in a year as RWA displaces incentive farming.
- Twenty-six companies now formally object to OKX and ICE's tokenised-equity venue.
- Ripple receives final OCC approval to operate a national trust bank.
- Janus Henderson and Centrifuge put a licensed Nasdaq-100 fund onchain.
- Luxor raises $16 million to trade AI compute the way it trades bitcoin hashrate.
- Ripple wins final OCC sign-off for its national trust bank.
- BlackRock, SBI and Startale link tokenised MMFs to a yen stablecoin.
- Hyperliquid taps Kraken parent Payward as first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer.
- Bitmine adds 10,452 ETH and runs its largest equity buyback.
- Twenty-two companies now formally object to the OKX-ICE tokenised stock venue.
- BNB Chain outlines a high-performance EVM layer-1 with BNB as the sole token.
- PancakeSwap sets a November 23 deadline for CAKE holders on opBNB to bridge out.
- Latvia targets a tokenisation regulatory framework for 2027, focused on commercial property.
- HSBC activates an HKD stablecoin inside PayMe for 3 million users.
- Franklin Templeton parks $150 million in fund shares on the XRP Ledger in a single wallet.
- OKX's tokenised stock plan draws objections from Wells Fargo, Cisco and Marvell.
- Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko floats a validator stake-weighted oracle to back SOL minting against tokenised collateral.
- HSBC launches its first stablecoin to 3 million retail app users.
- Singapore's BLOOM cross-border stablecoin rail adds Malaysia and Thailand.
- Ethereum's Glamsterdam testnet fork is postponed after gas-limit security findings.
- a16z quietly drops 'Crypto' from its fund name.
- HSBC launches RedCoin, its first HKD stablecoin, to PayMe retail users.
- Solana's Alpenglow upgrade goes live, the network's most significant change in six years.
- SoFi launches SOFIE, a tokenised deposit earning 4.4% APY with FDIC coverage.
- a16z renames its crypto fund a16z Frontier and widens scope to AI and frontier tech.
- Standard Chartered moves to acquire Zodia Custody outright.
- Aerodrome and Velodrome merge into multi-chain Aero.
- Kalshi plugs BitGo into its prediction-market collateral stack.
- Tether leads $15M Series A into AI-payments startup Mural.
- Tokenized stock objector list nearly doubles to 16 companies.
- Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payment rails.
- Stablecoins now clear more than $400 million per hour on average.
- Eighty-two crypto projects have shut down so far in 2026.
- Mastercard launches a stablecoin fraud and sanctions screening API at Money20/20.
- Bitmine adds 12,535 ETH, reaching 99% of its self-declared accumulation target.
- Nine major US companies object to having their shares listed on OKX and ICE's planned tokenised stock venue.
- SkyAI liquidated its entire Solana treasury and launched a $201 million buyback.
- BlackRock wants tokenised funds inside settlement and collateral infrastructure.
- SEC tokenised stock framework draws objections from Broadcom and Verizon.
- Deutsche Bank's crypto custody goes live in Germany, Asia next in 2027.
- Stablecoin supply growth has stalled, but payments volume is up 45%.
- Nine public companies object to OKX-ICE tokenising their shares without consent.
- Polygon acquires Coinme to push into mainstream payments.
- Goldman, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley frame tokenisation as incremental revenue, not disruption.
- Nine crypto firms form a Quantum Alliance to set post-quantum security standards.
- Circle targets 40 emerging markets as stablecoin demand accelerates.
- Visa Direct brings USDC prefunding into commercial production.
- Coinbase partners with Marqeta to extend stablecoin-backed card issuance.
- Solana's Alpenglow upgrade targets material throughput improvements.
- Mastercard and BVNK launch a unified fiat-stablecoin platform.
- Ledger unveils Atom, an Android security device with anti-tamper hardware — as a supply-chain attack surfaces.
- Farcaster is acquired by Balaji's Network School, with a 'social smart contract' replacing open access.
- Starknet opens a seven-day governance vote on building a post-quantum Layer 1.
- Kraken's parent Payward to acquire Lithuania's Saldo Bank, its first EU banking licence.
- BNY and Citadel Securities complete first tokenised Treasury repo on a major triparty platform.
- Sberbank wins Russian approval to custody and trade BTC, ETH, and USDT.
- Polygon Labs closes Coinme acquisition, landing 37 US state money transmitter licences.
- BNY and Citadel Securities pilot tokenised US Treasuries as repo collateral.
- Strive raises $500 million via preferred shares to stack more Bitcoin.
- Solana sets 21 October for Alpenglow, targeting 150-millisecond finality.
- Binance shuts its mining pool and cloud mining services by 10 November.
- Evernorth listed on Nasdaq with 473 million XRP, but 80% of SPAC investors redeemed before the open.
- Bitmine's Ethereum treasury crossed 6.03 million ETH, with 84% staked.
- Standard Chartered launched RLUSD custody in Dubai with a live LMAX collateral link.
- SWI raised $894 million to convert former FTX miner Genesis Digital into an AI compute operation.
- Sui Foundation puts $30M into DATA Network as the protocol retires its own chain.
- Sam Altman-backed Bitcoin-native life insurer closes $37.5M round.
- Solana handles 65% of tokenised equities trading volume.
- Jeonbuk Bank launches South Korea's first BTC-collateralised corporate loans.
- Filecoin's six-year vesting schedule is nearly complete, cutting FIL issuance by around 75%.
- Pump.fun shifts caller rewards to a profit-sharing model tied to followers' actual gains.
- Tokenised commodities expand beyond gold into oil and lending instruments.
- Papertrade faces oracle manipulation allegations as the platform's loss-funded pool reaches $3 million.
- New bitcoin lending protocol launches with $500 million in day-one commitments.
- Meanwhile raises $37.5 million for bitcoin life insurance, total funding passes $180 million.
- DWF Labs subsidiaries file $141 million suit against BitGo in London's High Court.
- Solana's 200-millisecond block time upgrade is imminent.
- Securitize launches 1:1-backed tokenised stocks on Solana, NYSE venue to follow.
- Samsung integrates USDC on Solana across 82 million Galaxy devices.
- Orca and Loopscale merge to form Formation, aiming at real-world asset financing.
- Standard Chartered expands institutional crypto custody to Singapore.
- Orca and Loopscale merge into Formation, targeting AI, robotics, and defence financing.
- Standard Chartered launches institutional crypto custody in Singapore.
- Tether signs an MOU with Kazakhstan's central bank on a tenge-pegged stablecoin and RWA tokenisation.
- Samsung Wallet adds USDC transfers on Solana for Galaxy device users.
- Abstract, the Pudgy Penguins-backed Ethereum L2, is shutting down on 15 December.
- OKX raises fresh capital at a flat $25B valuation from StanChart, Circle, Ripple and Qube Research.
- Coinbase revives the Pro brand and completes its Deribit integration as Coinbase Global Exchange.
- Spiko closes a $90M Series B to scale its $2.7B tokenised cash fund business.
- OKX and ICE file for 24/7 tokenised US stock trading under the SEC's innovation exemption.
- Solana Foundation launches an open-source DvP settlement programme built with JPMorgan input.
- Strategy, Strive, Metaplanet, and Bitmine all report significant treasury activity.
- S&P Global launches a risk-assessment framework for the $10 billion crypto lending-vault sector.
- OKX files with the SEC to offer tokenised US equities.
- S&P Global launches a risk framework for onchain lending vaults.
- Payward and Singapore Gulf Bank partner on round-the-clock settlement.
- Greenfield Capital escalates Safe governance dispute to Swiss regulators.
- OpenPayd targets a year-end Nasdaq listing to fund US expansion.
- Stacks Labs CTO details what PoX-6 changes for the protocol.
- Injective launches a meme perpetuals treasury for the RUNNER token.
- Iran's central bank moves to block rial accounts linked to crypto exchanges.
- Blast is shutting down after TVL collapsed 98% from its $2.3 billion peak.
- BNY is in talks with Kraken's parent Payward on an infrastructure partnership.
- Absa becomes the first African bank to offer digital-asset custody.
- Tether's USDT is migrating back to Bitcoin natively after more than a decade away.
- Evernorth shareholders approve $1B XRP treasury deal, Nasdaq listing set for Oct. 8.
- Lloyds and Visa settle $750K cross-border payment in USDC during live pilot.
- Ethereum Foundation ships zkAPI for privacy-preserving AI model payments.
- EIP-8363 staking reward burn proposal withdrawn from Hegota upgrade.
- Base launches Cobalt upgrade with conditional transaction logic and new B20 asset functions.
- Kalshi nears a $1 billion raise at a $40 billion valuation ahead of a possible IPO.
- DogeOS opens public testnet for a ZK rollup bringing EVM contracts to Dogecoin.
- MetaMask Staking exits Lido validators after a security incident triggers Morpho vault outflows.
- Robinhood drops a full product overhaul: perps, 10x crypto leverage, weekend equities and an AI agent marketplace.
- Coinbase completes full vertical integration of its derivatives stack after CFTC sign-off.
- Blockchain.com files for a $500 million IPO at up to a $6 billion valuation.
- Abracadabra proposes retiring MIM at four cents on the dollar.
- Coinbase completes its full derivatives stack with CFTC DCO approval.
- Strategy and Strive both added to their BTC treasuries last week.
- Bitmine now controls 4.9% of Ethereum's circulating supply.
- Vitalik sets Hegota as Ethereum's last conventional hard fork.
- Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum's 2030 roadmap, arguing the network is no longer purely a blockchain.
- Iran's parliamentary report finds crypto mining accounts for 14% of the country's electricity deficit.
- YouTube pulled the Bitcoin Treasuries channel days before a scheduled conference, citing harmful content.
- Binance integrating USDC hands Circle a meaningful edge over Tether.
- Kraken's parent Payward is repositioning itself as broad financial infrastructure.
- Solana's 150ms finality upgrade advances to a second public testnet.
- PeerDAS quietly marks nearly a year of live Ethereum operation.
- Aave V4 on Base accepts tokenised stocks as USDC collateral.
- KelpDAO sues LayerZero over the $292 million rsETH exploit.
- BlackRock deepens its Ondo tokenisation partnership.
- Zano halts all economic activity after an inflation bug, plans a chain rollback.
- ARK Invest tokenises its $1.3 billion venture fund via Securitize on Ethereum.
- UK's largest banks settle the first interbank tokenised-deposit transactions.
- Bullish, Alpaca and Apex Fintech form a coalition to advance issuer-backed tokenised equities.
- Solana Foundation recruits Binance's global CMO and a Polygon Labs payments lead.
- BitMEX ends trading after eleven years.
- NYSE and Blockchain.com sign a tokenised stocks deal.
- Hut 8 picks up Poolin's Texas data centres for $140 million.
- Galaxy adds $100 million in Sky's sUSDS to its treasury.
- Binance acquires a $100 million Circle stake and signs a five-year USDC promotion deal — on the same day US prosecutors reportedly probe its Iran sanctions compliance.
- SoFi goes live with stablecoin settlement on Mastercard's network, targeting $25 billion in annualised card volume.
- Canada's Big Six banks announce a joint interbank tokenised deposit initiative.
- Animoca Brands shelves its IPO and halts merger talks with Currenc.
- Bitmine adds $75M in ETH, closing in on 5% of circulating supply.
- Coinbase opens IPO allocations to US retail, starting with Oura.
- ECB goes live with Pontes and will invest its own funds in tokenised bonds.
- Animoca Brands kills its reverse merger with Currenc.
- ZetaChain votes to wind down its L1 and migrate ZETA to Solana.
- Pendle launches NGI+ market to bring institutional infrastructure yields on-chain.
- Visa moves to close the meme coin credit card rewards loophole.
- Ethereum extends its lead in euro-denominated stablecoin market cap.
- Polymarket CEO reportedly directed staff to prioritise growth over compliance during an active fraud investigation.
- Kalshi and Coinbase both file for stock perpetual futures in the US.
- Grayscale splits its Zcash ETF three-for-one after the product pulled in $233 million in under a month.
- Bastion receives conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter.
- Coinbase files to list single-stock perpetual futures on Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia.
- Zcash targets a 3x block-speed upgrade in November.
- OCC grants Bastion a conditional national trust bank charter.
- SBI Group anchors dtcpay's $25 million Series A.
- S&P Global acquires OpenZeppelin to anchor onchain risk and security ratings.
- Circle's Arc L2 launched as a corporate blockchain, became a memecoin venue within hours.
- World launches 'World Money' super app with stablecoins and Stripe integration.
- Ondo Finance succession crisis deepens as family allegations surface publicly.
- Circle's Arc mainnet is live, with BlackRock, DTCC, and Visa among its permissioned validators.
- Deutsche Bank is formally launching digital asset custody for European institutional clients.
- Celsius's bankruptcy estate is suing BitMEX for $495 million over 2020 liquidations.
- CoinEx is shutting down after nine years, giving users until December to withdraw funds.
- Standard Chartered puts a $10 price target on ARB by end-2030.
- Kamino Finance hires YieldStreet co-founder Weisz as CEO for a US expansion push.
- Balancer proposes protocol wind-down and treasury distribution to BAL holders.
- Aave proposes lending against Bitcoin held in Anchorage custody.
- Kaiko's Series B reaches $110 million with S&P Global and BNP Paribas joining.
- Balancer is weighing a full wind-down after its restructuring failed to restore revenue.
- Robinhood is adding share redemptions and voting rights to its stock tokens after investor criticism.
- India has started tokenising corporate bonds via a wholesale digital rupee pilot.
- Circle buys Tazapay for $400M.
- x402 AI payments data shows agents still barely spending.
- Robinhood moves into IPO underwriting with Oura.
- Grayscale files to convert its Litecoin Trust into an ETF.
- Ripple's stablecoin team is pitching RLUSD at corporate treasuries, citing a $13T addressable pool.
- Bitcoin Suisse is cutting up to half its Swiss headcount and moving work offshore.
- Anthropic is in talks with Nvidia as anchor investor ahead of a potential $2T IPO.
- India's SEBI Demat 2.0 pilot goes live with $100M+ in tokenised corporate bonds.
- Tokenised asset universe crosses $346B across 47 distinct asset types.
- Metaplanet slashes executive option pool by 41% and scraps employee warrants entirely.
- Robinhood CEO pushes back on AMC's bid to veto stock token issuance.
- Nasdaq puts $100M into Kraken parent Payward at a $21B valuation.
- Coinbase rebrands Base App back to Coinbase Wallet after a year-long social experiment.
- Former Bank of England deputy governor Jon Cunliffe joins Fnality.
- Polymarket hires former Amazon CFO Warren Jenson as its first finance chief.
- Consensys is splitting MetaMask into a standalone company.
- Tether launches a $400 million private credit fund with Fasanara.
- PayPal opens a custom stablecoin issuance platform.
- Block applies for a federal trust bank charter to consolidate Bitcoin custody.
- Jack Dorsey's Block files for a national trust bank charter to hold Bitcoin, stablecoins, and digital assets under federal oversight.
- Circle agrees to acquire Singapore cross-border payments firm Tazapay for $400 million.
- Bitmine adds $69M in ETH, bringing its treasury to 5.93 million tokens, roughly 4.9% of Ethereum's total supply.
- Visa's stablecoin settlement volume tops a $20B annualised run rate, up more than 15x year on year.
- Ethereum roadmap locks in gas payments without ETH and a 2029 quantum-safety target.
- DBS and Citi complete the first weekend cross-border USD settlement via tokenised deposits on SWIFT.
- Solana set to triple maximum transaction size, opening room for more complex on-chain logic.
- Harmony proposes shutting down its L1 and pivoting to AI video.
- Harmony shuts its L1 and pivots to Ethereum-based AI video.
- Router Protocol winds down and burns 303 million ROUTE tokens.
- Coinbase and Better's BTC-backed mortgages will rehypothecate borrower collateral.
- Binance Square adds an equities tab alongside crypto content.
- UBS, Jane Street and 28 other institutions collectively hold $75M in Hyperliquid ETF exposure.
- Southeast Asian crypto funding rebounds to $680M with capital concentrated in mature firms.
- Robinhood Chain fee model debate draws in Offchain Labs and Solana co-founders.
- LeBron James teases a Polymarket partnership after his free-agency decision drove $273M in prediction-market volume.
- OpenReserve secures a full US national bank charter, not just a trust licence.
- Robinhood holds firm as AMC's CEO calls its tokenised shares 'contemptible'.
- South Korea publishes a three-stage tokenised securities roadmap targeting February 2027.
- Polymarket launches perpetual futures with up to 20x leverage.
- Coinbase files with the SEC to list 24/7 leveraged equity perpetuals.
- Standard Chartered launches spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the UAE.
- SoFi and Kraken link banking settlement rails with crypto infrastructure.
- Diameter Pay raises $10 million Series A for stablecoin payments infrastructure.
- Twenty-one major banks, including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, are planning a joint dollar stablecoin.
- Kraken parent Payward pushes its IPO back to at least the second quarter of 2027.
- Arbitrum DAO reports $6.2 million in first-half income, with Robinhood Chain licensing fees covering 35% of July's total.
- Securitize and Socios partner to tokenise equity in professional sports clubs under the EU DLT Pilot Regime.
- Citi, Goldman, and a consortium of global banks launch a joint stablecoin venture.
- Payward and the London Stock Exchange to tokenize 100 UK-listed stocks.
- Binance adds options on 1,000 US stocks and ETFs.
- Hyperliquid Strategies expands its equity facility to $2.5 billion.
- Hyperliquid in advanced talks with Kraken parent Payward for US perps access.
- Polymarket raises $1 billion at a $21 billion valuation, led by Trump Jr's firm.
- ICE partners with tZERO and takes a stake to build tokenised securities infrastructure.
- Bitmine adds 53,501 ETH as Tom Lee calls ether the best-performing macro asset.
- Kalshi locked up the US Open as its exclusive prediction market partner.
- BitGo acquires NYDIG's institutional trading arm for roughly $42.5M.
- Bitwise's Solana staking ETF crosses $1B AUM in ten months.
- CZ concedes he underestimated how fast real-world assets would grow.
- Solana's Double Disinflation proposal squeezes through governance by a razor margin.
- BitGo acquires NYDIG's trading arm for up to $57.5 million.
- SBI Holdings takes a 20% stake in Indonesian broker Ajaib for $270 million.
- Ethena pivots to equity perps to sustain yield as crypto funding rates compress.
- Evernorth's SEC registration is effective, putting a Ripple-backed XRP treasury vehicle one shareholder vote from Nasdaq.
- BitGo acquires NYDIG's institutional trading book, pulling in roughly 30 staff and their client relationships.
- Charles Schwab expands its direct crypto platform to include SOL, AVAX, and LINK.
- Mirae Asset outlines a $109 billion digital asset strategy built around its Digital X acquisition.
- StarkWare executes first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet
- Revolut goes live with euro-pegged EURR in three markets
- Galaxy launches crypto-backed credit lines at 8.99% APR
- LayerZero's ATLAS settlement engine sends ZRO up 10%
- LayerZero launches ATLAS, a full trading infrastructure layer on its Zero chain.
- Bitwise launches automated tokenised stock portfolios powered by Coinbase's Base.
- Grayscale debuts the first Zcash ETF as the privacy coin surges.
- Copper custody is in play but buyers are well below the $500 million ask.
- Coinbase launches tokenised equities on Base, positioning for 24/7 stock trading.
- Strategy raises $2 billion via MSTR share sales and parks it in a new USD cash pool.
- Solana governance proposal would burn up to $800,000 of SOL daily and throttle new token issuance.
- Standard Chartered becomes the first bank to distribute a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin.
- Pendle's Morpho USDC vault pulls $50M in under two weeks
- Phantom cuts Sui support with a 24 September user deadline
- Tether's $120M Uruguay mining project collapsed over a power contract dispute
- Grayscale Zcash Trust lists on NYSE Monday as ZEC trades near eight-year highs.
- Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds.
- Shinhan Bank ties up with Solana Foundation for won-denominated tokenised fund pilot.
- BitMart weighs a partial restart and creditor repayments after announcing shutdown.
- Grayscale files for a Zcash ETF, ZEC spikes 42% past $800.
- Nomura-backed Laser Digital receives Japan's first new crypto licence in four years.
- Solana activates its first block-time reduction since launch.
- Binance launches Agent OS, letting AI models trade directly via the exchange.
- Franklin Templeton receives the first US regulatory clearance to embed tokenized assets inside conventional investment funds.
- An Optimism-funded team's governance vote redirected $49 million in OP tokens away from users.
- Kraken's parent Payward is exploring a full banking licence outside the United States.
- X is exploring stablecoin payments for creators and influencers.
- Ripple raises $275 million in senior notes for prime brokerage.
- Bybit credits AI with saving $700 million a year after its $1.46 billion hack.
- HSBC and Standard Chartered complete the first live transaction on Swift's 24/7 ledger.
- Nethermind exits LayerZero to join Chainlink as a node operator.
- Citi plans bitcoin custody for institutional clients later this year.
- Metaplanet acquires 96% of Super League to launch a US bitcoin treasury vehicle.
- Securitize brings Neuberger Berman's fixed-income platform onchain.
- Visa hunts a new stablecoin settlement partner after BVNK moves to Mastercard.
- Bitmine now controls close to 5% of Ethereum's total supply.
- Compound pivots to institutional lending with $52 million and a new leadership team.
- Harmony plans a full chain rollback after an exploiter minted 3 trillion ONE tokens.
- Tokenised equities have tripled market share since January, now at $2.8 billion.
- Israeli Air Force officer faces charges for Polymarket betting on classified military intelligence.
- OpenAI and AWS publish an implementation guide for x402 payment flows over Base.
- Novig sues Wisconsin AG in its fifth state legal action over sports prediction contracts.
- Chainalysis sues the US government over a blockchain analytics contract awarded to TRM Labs.
- World Liberty Financial receives a conditional bank charter to issue USD1 directly.
- Craft Ventures targeting $1B for its first fund since David Sacks returned from the White House.
- JPMorgan quietly severed Polymarket's banking relationship last October but is pitching for IPO work.
- Nillion jumped 22% after integrating Chainlink's CCIP.
- Tether's first KPMG audit lands; CEO brushes off the critics.
- Bank Leumi taps Galaxy to roll out BTC, ETH and SOL trading.
- Cboe files for the first US 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs.
- Neutrl pauses NUSD redemptions citing an undisclosed reserve issue.
- Tether gets a clean KPMG opinion on its full 2025 financials.
- Figure nearly triples quarterly profit as its onchain loan marketplace hits $4.3 billion in volume.
- Gemini posts a $108 million quarterly loss as exchange revenue falls 38%.
- Kalshi hit by a Washington state court order and a Baltimore city lawsuit simultaneously.
- Goldman Sachs acquires NEOS for up to $2.25 billion, inheriting a ready-built Bitcoin income ETF.
- Fidelity files to add staking and quarterly cash payouts to its $900 million Ethereum ETF.
- Franklin Templeton gets SEC no-action clearance to route traditional fund cash through its onchain BENJI system.
- Wintermute plans a $1 billion expansion into AI, moving well beyond its crypto market-making roots.
- Erebor, the crypto-friendly bank, is in talks to raise $1.5B at a $9.5B valuation.
- Ravencoin mulls a four-day chain rollback after a critical block exploit.
- Luke Dashjr removed as Bitcoin BIP editor following the BIP-110 fork's collapse.
- eToro acquires TradeZero for up to $231M as its crypto revenue falls.
- Riot Platforms surges 25% after-hours on a $9.1B compute deal with Anthropic.
- Mastercard acquires stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for $1.8 billion.
- Vitalik's updated Ethereum roadmap centres on quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted formal verification.
- Bybit sues North Korea over the $1.5B Lazarus Group hack and wins an asset-freeze order.
- Grayscale withdraws ETF registration filings for ADA, HBAR, and DOT.
- Hyperliquid's RWA perps growth is compressing the revenue that underpins HYPE.
- Over 100 crypto projects have shut down so far in 2026.
- Strategy backs STRC preferred shares at $95, with $18 billion in capacity potentially returning.
- Block lifts its Bitcoin treasury to 9,117 BTC as Jack Dorsey's firm keeps accumulating.
- Robinhood's chain architecture runs two parallel philosophies, RWA settlement and memecoin trading, by design.
- Polymarket faces a $170,000 lawsuit over a disputed Trump prediction market resolution.
- Bitcoin Red Team says AI tooling has already turned up critical vulnerabilities across 150 Bitcoin repositories.
- Trump Media scraps both its CRO treasury vehicle and Truth Social prediction market tie-up with Crypto.com.
- Wintermute secures SEC broker-dealer registration, opening access to equities, options and crypto ETF blocks.
- Ondo founder's mother seeks to remove CEO and take control of the company following Nathan Allman's death.
- EIP-8363's proposed ETH issuance burn draws sharp criticism from stakers and institutional holders alike.
- Ondo Finance founder's mother seeks to oust the current CEO.
- Tokenised RWA deposits triple to $7.4 billion as broader DeFi contracts.
- Wintermute registers as a US broker-dealer to trade equities and crypto ETFs.
- MetaMask ships a self-custodial AI agent wallet.
- Circle names Wall Street heavyweights as Arc validators ahead of September launch.
- Binance sues RedotPay founders for $470 million, alleging deliberate user diversion.
- Yellow Card raises $40 million to wire African banks into stablecoin rails.
- Eliza Labs founder declares ai16z token dead after class-action settlement drains treasury.
- BlackRock puts $311 billion of European money market funds on Ethereum.
- BitGo migrates $7.4 billion of WBTC from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP.
- Polymarket eyes a $20 billion valuation as the prediction market field crowds.
- BNY adds staking to its digital asset custody platform.
- Mastercard closes BVNK acquisition, embedding stablecoin rails into enterprise payments.
- BlackRock's new tokenised MMFs land on Solana and Ethereum for stablecoin treasuries.
- Bitmine now holds 5.8 million ETH after adding another 10,399 tokens and staking $278 million.
- American Bitcoin tops 8,000 BTC reserve after a record Q2 mining output.
- DTCC runs live tokenised trades with Wall Street's major institutions.
- Trump Media clarifies its $165M BTC transfer to Crypto.com was not a sale.
- Binance delists six tokens on 17 August.
- South Korean stablecoin outflows top $367M in June alone, extending an 18-month trend.
- XRP Ledger re-enables features previously yanked over critical bugs.
- BNB Chain is pursuing legal action against an ex-employee who front-ran a tutorial wallet memecoin.
- Chainlink pushed TWAP oracle feeds to mainnet for developers.
- New York sues prediction market Kalshi for up to $36B over alleged illegal gambling.
- Uniswap launches 'Earn' with Morpho, bringing curated lending vaults to idle assets.
- Aave governance weighs closing six V3 deployments and offboarding 50 low-use reserves.
- BitMEX shuts down as its cultural legacy migrates to TradFi.
- Ethereum's 43-day staking queue is a mechanics story, not a demand signal, Sygnum warns.
- Ondo Finance is eyeing an acquisition worth up to $500 million.
- Aave proposes cutting six low-revenue chain deployments and 75 individual reserves.
- BIS pilots tokenised money for cross-border payments with global bank participation.
- Luno cuts a fifth of its global headcount, citing automation and a retail trading slump.
- Ethereum Foundation adds pcaversaccio as its fourth board member.
- Tether's GENIUS-compliant USAT stablecoin expands to Celo.
- Ionic Digital, the mining company that emerged from Celsius's bankruptcy, surges 26% on Nasdaq debut.
- BNY targets the $8.6 trillion transfer agency market using blockchain settlement rails.
- Morgan Stanley debuts ETH and SOL ETPs with staking and the market's lowest fee.
- Ondo scraps public blockchain plans in favour of private high-speed trading network.
- Core Scientific pairs with AMD in a multi-gigawatt AI infrastructure deal.
- European banks launch RL1 as a regulated shared blockchain layer.
- Strategy skips bitcoin for a fifth consecutive week while building its cash war chest.
- Circle acquires IBM's entire blockchain patent estate, becoming the largest US holder in the category.
- Lido begins a major validator consolidation, shuffling $16.5 billion in staked ETH.
- Storj files for Chapter 11 as crypto's shutdown wave claims another name.
- BitMart is shutting down and its global CEO was not told.
- South Korean trading firm tokenises receivables with LG CNS.
- Sberbank building crypto trading infrastructure for a December launch.
- MiCA compliance pressure may force European crypto consolidation.
- BitMEX will cease operations on 23 September, ending an 11-year run.
- Sberbank targets a December launch for crypto trading infrastructure.
- Robinhood in talks to integrate Crypto.com prediction markets.
- Poolin files Chapter 11 with $173M in claims and a $52M stalking-horse bid for its Texas rigs.
- World Foundation raises $52.5M in a locked WLD token sale to scale its proof-of-human network.
- BitMEX and its co-founders face a proposed class action over an alleged insider trading desk and deliberate server outages.
- Odos Protocol announces it will shut down on 30 July, giving users one week to withdraw.
- BitMEX sets September 23 as its permanent shutdown date, 11 years after Arthur Hayes co-founded the exchange.
- BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy anchor a nine-firm Bitcoin Security Consortium pledging $15 million for post-quantum cryptography research.
- Coinbase declares AI agent payments its 'most high-conviction bet' and opens the product to business customers.
- Mirae Asset completes its acquisition of Korbit, South Korea's oldest crypto exchange.
- Midnight token rebounded 19% after the Wanchain bridge hack, with Hoskinson calling for a ZK overhaul.
- Revolut reached a $115B valuation in an employee secondary sale.
- Coinbase is building an 'Everything Exchange' for Canada, adding stocks and prediction markets.
- HTX is rotating hot wallets across chains to evade UK sanctions screening, per TRM Labs.
- Movement Labs files Chapter 11 with liabilities up to $10 million.
- Jack Mallers exits Twenty One Capital as the Tether three-way merger collapses.
- Augustus closes $180 million Series B to build a stablecoin-native clearing bank.
- Telegram plans a non-custodial wallet rollout for its entire billion-plus user base.
- Hyperliquid's HIP-4 opens prediction markets to permissionless deployment, at a price.
- Cardano's Van Rossum hard fork goes live as the first community-voted protocol upgrade.
- Exodus cuts a quarter of its workforce and pivots hard toward stablecoins.
- Grayscale files for a Worldcoin ETF, bringing iris-scan tokenomics to Wall Street.
- Saylor publishes a 110-point broadside against BIP-110 as the August activation window nears.
- USDT faces a structural clock: two years to compliance or delisting from US platforms.
- Japanese logistics firm trials JPYC stablecoin payments to attract contractors in a tight labour market.
- Aurora mainnet went dark and has stayed that way, with no explanation offered.
- Uniswap governance votes on v4 fee routing and Robinhood Chain deployment.
- Bitcoin Japan plans a $60 million raise to actually buy Bitcoin for the first time.
- Bitcoin's DOG Mode surfaces the protocol's next governance fracture.
- Dollar stablecoins are quietly displacing Brazil's domestic payment rails.
- Citadel Securities takes a $400 million stake in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation.
- SBI Holdings closes its majority acquisition of Singapore's Coinhako.
- Cardano hands core infrastructure to external development teams.
- Grayscale restructures its Solana staking ETF to pay quarterly cash distributions.
- Citadel Securities leads $400M round into Crypto.com at $20B valuation.
- T. Rowe Price launches first actively managed multi-token crypto ETF.
- Visa launches stablecoin platform backed by Open USD.
- Polygon Labs cuts headcount for the second time in 2026.
- DTCC moves tokenised stocks and Treasuries into live production.
- Stripe tables a $53B bid for PayPal.
- Aave V4 debuts on Avalanche with RWA lending in its sights.
- Jesse Pollak hands Base App to Cobie after conceding the social strategy failed.
- Wall Street cuts Circle targets, citing Hyperliquid and Open USD as structural threats to USDC.
- Velocity raises $38M Series A to wire stablecoins into corporate banking rails.
- CleanSpark signs a $6.6 billion, 20-year data centre lease with an undisclosed global tech tenant.
- Ethereum Foundation's privacy team spins out as for-profit EthSystems to sell confidentiality tooling to banks.
- Robinhood Chain clears $3 billion in weekly DEX volume and cracks the top five chains, but memecoins are the actual driver.
- UK government launches a tokenisation taskforce with BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley.
- SBI Holdings pivots its blockchain unit to Solana, rebranding to SBI Solana Global.
- Binance.US CEO outlines a rebuild plan targeting 20% of US market share.
- BIP 110 fork deadline is approaching with no miner signalling support.
- Japan's SBI Holdings is systematically expanding its crypto footprint.
- Lawson convenience stores are piloting yen-pegged stablecoin payments in Japan.
- Solana logged 10.1 billion transactions in Q1 2026 and is adding 8.4 million new addresses weekly.
- Robinhood Chain goes live as an Arbitrum-based L2 for tokenised equities.
- BNB Agent Studio integrates with AWS Bedrock AgentCore for persistent AI agents.
- Ripple CEO says the company nearly collapsed under SEC pressure.
- SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq debut gets a tokenised shadow listing on Solana.
- Kraken is relaunching its mobile app around agentic AI trading.
- Hyundai goes live with internal stablecoin transfers, becoming the first major South Korean conglomerate to do so.
- Cambridge research flags Ethereum's jurisdictional concentration risk: 31% of node activity sits in the US.
- Gauntlet closes $125M Series C with SBI Holdings as sole backer.
- Sony Bank gets conditional OCC approval for a dollar stablecoin trust.
- MARA gains 14% after announcing a 2GW Texas campus deal.
- Over $7.2B migrates from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins.
- Paradigm closes a $1.2B fourth fund, roughly half earmarked for AI and robotics.
- BNB Chain announces a new L1 built specifically for agentic and high-frequency trading.
- Bitmine adds $70M of ETH to treasury, bringing holdings to roughly 4.8% of circulating supply.
- DeFi dashboard Zapper is shutting down after seven years.
- EDX Markets closes $76M Series C with SBI Holdings as sole backer.
- Coinbase wins UK licence to offer derivatives and equities alongside crypto.
- Kraken wins $22M arbitration against Mazars over abandoned audit.
- Ondo Finance enables tokenised stocks as perpetual trading collateral.
- Vitalik Buterin calls for Ethereum's most ambitious rebuild since the Merge.
- USDC is outpacing Tether on transaction volume, per Visa data.
- Bitmine's treasury now holds over 5.7 million ETH after a fresh $74 million purchase.
- Securitize is hunting acquisitions with a $400 million post-IPO war chest.
- Strategy quietly kills its 'never sell' Bitcoin stance.
- Aave's Monad deployment hits $100 million in two days.
- Aptos patches a critical Move VM vulnerability that was cheap to trigger.
- Trump memecoin holders are collectively down $3.8 billion.
- Securitize tokenises $295 million in stock on Solana at IPO.
- Spotify pulls its branding from Kalshi and Polymarket after a rigged music bet.
- OUSD stablecoin consortium lists Samsung and Dunamu without their knowledge.
- MiCA's first post-deadline register adds 37 firms including Standard Chartered.
- Securitize lists on NYSE and simultaneously tokenises its own shares on-chain.
- Ondo Finance tokenises BlackRock's IVV ETF and Micron shares under an SEC-shaped custodial model.
- eToro leads a $12.5 million seed into onchain perps platform Extended.
- Solana launches on-chain governance gated at 100,000 SOL staked.
- Robinhood Chain opens its public mainnet with tokenised stocks, perps and agentic trading ambitions.
- Ethereum Institutional launches as a nonprofit bridge between the protocol and Wall Street.
- Venice AI closes a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation.
- Forward Industries extends its lead as the largest public Solana treasury, adding 500,000 SOL.
- Open USD launches with over 100 backers, Circle takes the hit.
- MetaMask Money Account launches on Monad with up to 4% APY.
- New York Life's $800 billion asset manager enters tokenized credit.
- Phantom hires Hyperliquid market-builders to push into perps.
- BlackRock's Aladdin platform deepens Ethena integration, lifting ENA 8%.
- BNY gains mint-and-burn capability for USDC, broadening custodian stablecoin reach.
- Securitize clears shareholder vote, NYSE debut set for Thursday.
- Loopring shuts its zkRollup DEX after failing to attract meaningful volume.
- Kiwoom Securities pursues a stake in Bithumb.
- SBI's $289 million Bitbank acquisition signals broader Japanese exchange consolidation.
- American Express hires a dedicated VP for stablecoin and blockchain partnerships.
- Crypto VCs are formally expanding mandates beyond the sector.
- Coinbase and OKX are actively recruiting Binance's EU client base following Binance's MiCA licence failure.
- Tether is deploying its $23 billion gold reserve as collateral for bullion-backed loans.
- Stablecoin usage is concentrated in emerging markets, but the founders and venture money remain clustered in the US and Europe.
- Securitize targets early July NYSE debut with a $400 million SPAC raise.
- Framework Ventures closes $400 million fourth fund spanning crypto, AI and robotics.
- SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Japanese exchange Bitbank for $289 million.
- BitGo cuts 15% of staff as it pivots toward stablecoins and AI infrastructure.
- Kraken reported in talks to buy 15% of Aave, founder pushes back hard.
- Invesco files to bring a tokenised money-market fund into the stablecoin reserve stack.
- Spark seeds a stablecoin FX layer on Uniswap v4 with $150 million.
- BitGo cuts 15% of staff and pivots toward AI infrastructure and stablecoins.
- Kalshi seeks a $40 billion valuation, sues Illinois, and posts record open interest.
- Binance drops its Greek MiCA application with one week to the deadline.
- Abracadabra in emergency mode as MIM loses its dollar peg.
- Pump.fun advertises a chief legal officer role paying up to $5 million.
- Ethereum Foundation cuts a fifth of its workforce and 40% of its overall budget.
- Franklin Templeton closes its 250 Digital acquisition and creates a dedicated crypto division.
- THORChain resumes full operations more than a month after a $10.7 million exploit.
- Nouriel Roubini puts his Technodollar product on-chain.
- ICE and OKX form a joint venture to pipe tokenised equities into crypto markets.
- Bitmine adds $92 million in ETH, pushing toward 5% of circulating supply.
- Tokenised RWA market cap clears $51 billion, equity tokenisation up 130% — and the patent wars have started.
- Fomo trading app raises $75 million at a $550 million valuation.
- Polymarket paid influencers to stage fabricated winning bets on dummy prediction sites.
- CME's legal push to classify perps as swaps moves to the next stage.
- Andre Cronje and two co-directors step down from the Sonic Labs board.
- MiCA 2.0 consultation opens with stablecoins and DeFi as the central targets.
- Japan's Prime Minister frames Bitcoin as a generational economic opportunity.
- Pump.fun launches a bounty platform with extreme real-world tasks.
- Franklin Templeton files dividend-to-bitcoin ETFs.
- Base sets 25 June for its Beryl upgrade.
- Ethereum faces a potential core development funding gap.
- Igloo building a path for crypto tokens to list on NYSE as registered securities.
- Ethereum Foundation loses its co-executive director.
- Morgan Stanley files amended ETH and SOL ETF disclosures with the lowest fees in the market.
- Fidelity launches a GENIUS Act-aligned money market fund for stablecoin reserve assets.
- Kraken integrates Solana DEX trading directly into its core app.
- Trace Finance closes a $32 million Series A for stablecoin payments infrastructure.
- Fidelity moves into stablecoin reserve management, joining a crowding trade.
- Satori Finance shuts down, another perps DEX fails to outlast the bear.
- Tether quietly winds down Alloy and the gold-backed aUSDT product.
- Coinbase pitches itself as the everything exchange with tokenised stocks, options, and an AI advisor.
- Robinhood cuts 10 percent of staff as crypto revenue cools.
- Ripple buys into Flutterwave's $3.2 billion Series E to push RLUSD across Africa.
- World Liberty Financial is close to an OCC federal trust charter for USD1.
- Bitmine adds $136M in ETH to push holdings past 5.6 million tokens.
- Standard Chartered initiates on UNI with a $100 price target by 2030.
- Spot HYPE ETFs approach $900M in cumulative volume within days of launch.
- Paradigm leads a $9M seed into Latin American stablecoin payments app El Dorado.
- Mining difficulty drops 10%, the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026.
- Aerodrome retools its liquidity layer into a prediction market.
- World Liberty Financial puts USD1 inside the UFC Octagon at a White House event.
- Crypto funds disagree on whether the Bitcoin bottom is in.
- White House gives Anthropic 90 minutes to pull Claude Fable and Mythos models.
- Morpho closes $175 million round as onchain credit becomes the VC consensus trade.
- Zcash gets a clean bill of health from Anthropic's Mythos audit.
- Wall Street is moving Ethereum from pilot to production, says Etherealize.
- BlackRock's yield-bearing bitcoin ETF files 8-A, launch pencilled in for next week.
- Exodus and Ondo put 200-plus tokenised stocks and ETFs on Solana.
- Ethena Labs commits $250 million to Securitize's tokenised AAA CLO fund on Solana.
- Metaplanet acquires Japanese securities firm Siiibo for $13 million.
- Digital Asset raises $355M from a16z to scale the Canton Network.
- Coinbase launches dedicated accounts for AI agents to trade and pay autonomously.
- Tether leads a $1.4B round into German humanoid robotics firm Neura.
- Citi begins offering tokenised private-company shares to wealthy and institutional clients.
- Tether leads a $1.4 billion round into humanoid robotics.
- Mastercard launches Agent Pay to let autonomous AI settle transactions.
- Botanix shuts its Bitcoin layer-2 after four years.
- Japan's three megabanks target a joint stablecoin by March 2027.
- Morpho raises $175M from Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit to build an open credit network.
- Janus Henderson takes an ENA position and eyes Ethena-linked investment products.
- Circle launches cirBTC on Ethereum to compete with Coinbase's cbBTC.
- Aave proposes a new risk framework in the wake of the KelpDAO exploit.
- Tokenized equities cross $5.5 billion as Bybit lists SpaceX IPO access.
- Bitmine put $207 million into Ethereum at the lows.
- MetaMask shipped a self-custodial wallet built for AI agents.
- Aave's founder defended the protocol after an $8.45 billion deposit run.
- JPMorgan says Strategy needs to rebuild dollar reserves, cuts Clarity Act odds below 50%.
- Saylor posts 'add more dots' hint as Strategy trades $11.7B underwater.
- Bybit lists tokenised SpaceX IPO shares via Kraken's xStocks infrastructure.
- HTX suspends WLFI and USD1 trading, force-converts user balances to USDT.
- America's largest banks are jointly building a digital currency network to halt deposit outflows to crypto and money-market alternatives.
- HTX to delist USD1 after World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses citing UK sanctions.
- Meta is paying creators in stablecoins, but the off-ramp problem is squarely the recipient's.
- Hyperion DeFi unwinds $29 million in HYPE positions as its USDH stablecoin winds down.
- Securitize clears its SEC registration statement, opening the path to NYSE listing.
- BitMine prices preferred shares with a 9.5% dividend in an upsized offering.
- Visa and Brale are exploring private stablecoin settlement via SBC on the Canton Network.
- Crypto Council for Innovation launches a vault-focused regulatory coalition.
- JPMorgan, BofA and Citi form a consortium to launch a tokenised deposit network by early 2027.
- Coinbase closes the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage using Bitcoin as collateral.
- Radiant Capital winds down after failing to recover from its 2024 hack.
- Mastercard deepens stablecoin settlement coverage via USDC and RLUSD.